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    SubjectRe: User space out of memory approach
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    On Tue, 2005-01-11 at 16:46 -0400, Ilias Biris wrote:
    > well looking into Alan's email again I think I answered thinking on
    > the wrong side :-) that the suggestion was to switch off OOM
    > altogether and be done with all the discussion... tsk tsk tsk too
    > defensive and hasty I guess :-)
    >
    > Thinking it in another way alan's email could have the dimension of
    > switching off overcommitment (and thus OOM) whilst in the user-space
    > ranking stage to avoid reentrancy and invocation of oom again and
    > again before killing something. It also solves the issue of using
    > timed/counted resources which is plain ugly and evil. It would though
    > be necessary to switch OOM back on when the OOMK has finally done the
    > kill.
    >
    > Did I get it right this time Alan?

    I don't get it at all.

    Fixes for wrong invocation, reentrancy avoidance, removal of the ugly
    and evil timer,counter hacks are in the wild since more than 6 weeks.
    They solve the problem without any userspace interaction.

    The userspace provided preferrable victim list is an improvement of the
    generic heuristic and therefor imperfect selection mechanism and nothing
    else.

    tglx


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